arcus senilis

1. 1.

   a whitish deposit in the shape of an arc that is sometimes seen in the cornea

   Synonymsarcus

   Broadercornea

Questions about arcus senilis

What does arcus senilis mean?

arcus senilis means "a whitish deposit in the shape of an arc that is sometimes seen in the cornea".

What is another word for arcus senilis?

Close synonyms include arcus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arcus senilis a common word?

arcus senilis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.